Hacktivists have posted "secret documents" stolen from an Italian cybercrime unit.
The documents – 8GB of files – were extracted from a system maintained by the Centro Nazionale Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture Critiche (CNAIPIC), the organisation charged with guarding the country's critical IT …

It's Anonymous

It might have been a dumb thing for *someone* to do, but it only takes one person to do it and say "Anonymous" - who knows? That said, *if* the disclosed information is in the public interest, then maybe it's a brave thing to do, rather than dumb.

Walled garden Internet one step closer

qwerty

If the governments to that it would just be further evidence that they don't really have the peoples' interests in mind. No one wants the government to regulate the internet, so if they truly represent the people, they won't.

You know how US institutions love abbreviations...

... like "CapCom", "PATRIOT Act" and so on? The Italians were doing it first.

The Italians make abbreviations and acronyms out of *everything*. Nobody uses the full name; in some cases, many don't even realise a name *is* an acronym or abbreviation. ("Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino", anyone?)

Government and other institutions often take a similar approach, so an ex-pat moving to Italy has to navigate and decipher an alphabet soup of initialisms, acronyms and the like, just to get by.